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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

RIP Philip Dodds



I just heard the sad news that Philip Dodds has passed away this weekend. Philip Dodds was the head engineer of ARP. That's him behind the ARP 2500 (third from the left) in Close Encounters of The Third Kind. You can find previous posts featuring Philip Dodds, including some ARP history, here.
Posted by matrix at 10/09/2007 12:55:00 PM
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8 comments:

  1. Carbon11110/9/07, 2:40 PM

    Third from left.

    He must have still been relatively young. :(

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  2. Carbon11110/9/07, 2:45 PM

    I should have said third from left on the still photo...the guy in the white shirt ;)

    I still remember being transfixed by CEOTTK and remembering how cool the big modular ARP was...

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  3. marr10/9/07, 2:47 PM

    A life contributing to the arts is a life well lived.

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  4. matrix10/9/07, 3:01 PM

    Thanks carbon111, that's what I meant. I swear I'm dyslexic. I just got done playing the Odyssey and the Rhodes Chroma. The Chroma was his last and I believe, most prized synth at ARP right when it was picked up by Fender. He was able to finish the realization of it at Fender. It really is a beautiful instrument.

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  5. Zamise10/9/07, 5:14 PM

    I was just watching Steven Spielbergs movie history documentary crap and he mentioned how he hired a guy with the ARP synthesizer for that particular part and they were showing that clip while he explained the importance of it.

    Anyway, seems like its been a bad couple of years for the old good ones of the day.

    May they live on in our heads and through our sounds.

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  6. Christian10/9/07, 6:06 PM

    thanks, i love my 2800.

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  7. Dave10/9/07, 6:31 PM

    Arp 2800? O_O

    R.I.P. Phil... loved this guy before I even knew what an ARP even was. Can't say that about any other synth guru...

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  8. Reed10/10/07, 1:20 PM

    2800 is the Odyssey, no?

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